Skills
Literary Terms
Multiple Choice
Short Response
Extended Response
100
The central idea can often be found here.
What is the opening or the closing?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100

Process O E stands for...

What is Process of Elimination?

100
The strategy you should use to structure/compose a short response.
What is RACE?
100
This is the first step you should take, before you even begin to write.
What is decide on your claim?
200
Author's purpose can be broken down into PIE, which stands for...
What is Persuade, Inform, or Entertain?
200
"The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
What you should physically be doing while answering multiple choice questions.
What is flipping the page back and forth?
200
The expected length of your short response.
What is 6-8 sentences?
200
The place where your claim goes.
What is at the end of your introductory paragraph?
300
The difference between 3rd person limited and 3rd person omniscient narration.
What is how much the narrator knows?
300
A reference to external content (like the one we found in "A Poem for my Librarian...").
What is an allusion?
300
What it looks like when you're using Process of Elimination.
What is slashed out choices?
300
The number of pieces of evidence that you are expected to supply.
What is 2?
300
The purpose of your conclusion.
What is to reiterate your claim?
400
The text says + What I think =
What is an inference?
400
When a writer gives a hint of what's to come.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The process when you choose an answer and compare the other answers to it.
What is a benchmark?
400
The technique in which you don't quote exactly from the text, but say the same thing in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
The expected number of paragraphs of an extended response.
What is 3-4?
500
The difference between tone and mode.
What is perspective? (Tone is from the perspective of the author, while mood is from the perspective of the reader)
500
The opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
500
Should you ever skip a question.
What is no?
500
When restating a complex question, most students actually forget this step.
What is Answer?
500
The step that most writers skip.
What is proofreading?
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